The GOD OF WAR rant 

6 months later gang reporting in 🫡

Reporting July 2024 !

me too!

Amen brother

Guys you all missed your time window by a year

Wait he's based ???!!! (since nobody wrote it for me)

So tru bestie

A wise woman once said

@@isdisgudnam 5th grader

Your copy pasted comment from a 50-year old essay is not "based". It's naive attempt at fake sophistication.

and now Horizon 1 is getting a second "remaster"

too real...

supremely underrated comment

this was such a funny bit because he came right to the conclusion the devs did when they went down his thought process

and Isaac should be more like older versions of Isaac

@@bmranr damn new Isaac versions, they ruined Isaac

AAA games are genuine dogshit

he's right though

​@@B2Rolanddo you know why?

the true chat's champion

Yeah that shit was wack. Loved the game as a whole though. Except for that 2-3 hour atreus fetch quest that was not it

@@RozKounelakion I loved the whole game too but for some reason it just didnt have the magic that 2018 gow had for me. The sequence of kratos getting the blades of chaos in 2018 was like peak gaming for me. I feel like ragnarok is probably the better game in every department but it didnt capture me the same way

@@AnthonyJSullivan yeah I'll admit that the blades of chaos scene was something else that first time around. But after ragnarok's first hour I was hooked on that as well lol

@@RozKounelakion ragnarok excelled in way more areas than 2018 did too to be fair. the final act of ragnarok is really good. we straight up go gow 3 mode out here with that assault

@@AnthonyJSullivan I really liked the combat as well. It felt really good to just fight NPC's in ragnarok. Some of the complaints I had about GOW 2018 were the enemy variety and the fact that each enemy had like one execution animation and they fixed both of those things, made the combat more enjoyable and satisfying etc. I really think I can count the complaints I have with ragnarok on my fingers and half of them can be attributed to the fact that I played it on a base 2014 ps4 lmao

Odd comment because I distinctly remember dropping DOOM 2016 because I didn't know how to continue, one time it was because of a key card or some such thing. Maybe I'm just rarted, but it turned me off so badly that I've just never played on beyond that point

@@Isaax how lol, the game literally gives you a huge marker on the map and compass to tell you exactly where to go

@@pm0532 I don't remember that, it might have been user error. But at the same time, if your game needs a big marker to tell you where to go, well... I don't know man

It doesnt need it, bc most people will be able to find their way, but they include it for people like you who still manage to get lost, at which point I'm sorry to say its a skill issue @@Isaax

@@toby8261 ok

So true. I can't wait for the mandatory "The Disappointing Truth of God of War Ragnarok." And then in chat people will ask him if he's seen it LOL

Btw its me, Im people 🤣

None of these video essay andys ever seem to have watched the GOATs of the medium. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IERHMMXeshc.html

Lmao exactly, and then they will type “yeah I always said the reboot games were annoying and worse than the OGs”

Holyyy based

I agree! But, small? Really?

@@_MartinChess_ its a joke

I went with the Pale Fire audiobook one time kinda blind and then felt like a real jackass when I figured out the conceit of that book

That shit is in every game. In elden ring, someone who rivals the elden lord in strength and power can die to a lowly skeleton

@@_MartinChess_ Yeah but the concept ties that you are a low level nobody , that's the point .

@@_MartinChess_ Okay except most other games aren't trying to convince me that this isn't a game. GOW is trying to convince me that the story I'm seeing is real, once you see shit like "just punch through the door" but games won't let me, then that illusion of it not being a game falls.

@@CeaerCeaer it’s in every game where the main character[s] have any type of powers that aren’t natural

@@CeaerCeaer what the fuck is it about beheading a troll that screams realism to you??? or was it when his son turned into a bear to fight odin and thor??? are you fucking stupid??

Shithead you mean?

I love slay the spire. Some of the art looks like it was made in ms paint

The art outside of card icons is the weakest part of Spire

That's funny, I avoided slay the spire for the longest time because the art is straight up ugly Gameplay too good to pass up though

I'd agree that cyberpunk was nominated too early, but at least the developers have brought it up to where it should have been then. Like currently, it really is just right.

@@omniimmortal9950 CDPR never got it anywhere near where they advertised to be. The game still feels lifeless and empty. Individual stories and missions are great, but the world is so janky and un-cyberpunk. It feels more like Saints Row than it does cyberpunk. It would have been better if it were on rails and not "open world"

What are you talking about triple A games get a ton of shit just like Marvel does in the film industry. We should stop acting like we're misunderstood unique quirky fellas for our love towards indie games and AAA games are too below us all when in reality I can't go through a day online without someone shitting on how formulaic AAA games are. NakeyJakey for example, has videos with millions of views critiquing AAA, and they all agree with him. But god no, our belief can't be popular belief. Come on.

@@lautaroescarlon7501 "this one youtuber made a video thats liked" yeah people critique Marvel and many agree, but look at the actual NUMBERS its the biggest most viewed movie franchise EVER. Many people loved Bladerunner2049, and its close to a cinematic failure when it comes to ticket sales.

@@Blaurot Yeah, but the amount of people who think Marvel makes actually outstanding movies is less than those who think they're popcorn flicks. They're popular because it's easy to watch and pass time not because they're genuinely great. Even Marvel fans critique Marvel. The average person doesn't think Marvel Movie 101 is better than Blade Runner, but one is considerably easier to digest than the other.

Me, reading this comment 8 months after it was written...

@@blahthebiste7924 me, reading this comment 5 hours after it was written...

Me reading this comment 2 hours later

​@@shmittywarbermanjensen1756 Me reading this comment 2 days after it was written

Me reading my comment as I’m writing it

It's very easy to make fun of.

@@HawkOfGP one example?

@@KevinM491 That the entire series sucks?

@@HawkOfGP how?

@@_MartinChess_ They won't ever say how cause they don't have any valid points. Hate just to hate sadly

But you die every time.

I can't believe they nerfed the 3* Loathsome Dung Eater

@@chadeava It's called Tokyo Jungle

i also think that a ton of design elements in GoW are at odds. the way characters almost immediately will explain what to look at, what it is and where to go makes it seem like they think their target audience is toddlers and then will also have stat descriptions with 2 decimal point percentages expecting anyone to actually focus on them.

Maximallist can work perfectly well, its just needs to tie together well. Persona games and Yakuza games do this well, there's a lot of side activities in each but they aren't there just to have more activities but because it feeds into a deeper motivation in the games. In persona its all based around interacting with the world and letting the characters develop from it, in Yakuza its about making the city feel more alive with people doing all sorts of thing with their own stories. In both cases those additions are part of the core experience people want. But in God of War its much more questionable, I've never seen anyone who came to god of war for the puzzles or for the loot collection. Those mechanics exist more for the end goal of provding downtime or build variety but the implementation could be changed from loot to skill trees and puzzles to plataforming without really changing the experience as a whole. The developers themselves pretty much showed this is the case with them being so willing to have characters just tell you the puzzle solutions if you take too long, something that they would only do if the puzzles didn't really matter themselves.

i think its because some devs (mainly indie, i think that its just bad game design for the case of AAA games) feel the need to stand out in some way, which is totally fine, but they end up overdoing it and it just ends up being really bad overall COTL had this same problem early on with itw repetitive rougelike and fairly bland city builder, and they just focused and evolved the city building part and it did much better for itself

i just don't see how it's "more fun". walking, tapping X, cutscene, walking, tapping X, cutscene

Is the combat the same, shit was garbage.

just gimme back the loading screen ffs

It's fun for boring people.

I'm so glad I didn't buy that shit. It litterally is cut scene, walking simulator, hog riding simulator, canoe simulator, and quick time events that YOU CANNOT FAIL! How do you make QTE that have no sense of urgency or threats. Game is damn near 60% of what I mentioned above. Shit is ridiculous😂

Waiting for 2027

I second this

Simple UI with surprisingly deep mechanics is peak game design.

@Christopher if you have your know how annoying he is

Oh wow, somebody in this insufferable comment section that actually played the game!

I have to agree, although I only played the new GoW and I'm still at the beginning of Ragnarok due to business with work. Really liked the game although I'm more of a FromSoft or competitive gaming Stan

Its the video game equivalent of Michelin Stars in all honesty.

I think one of the reason people like Elden ring and Froms recent games in general is that they stick to the “do one thing and do it well” formula.

True lol. Both are fantastic regardless despite some flaws imo

Like what? Genuine question

@@akshaydalvi1534 Like, everything about 3rd person action adventure games, lol. To be fair, Elden Ring very much breaks from tradition in the genre, which is probably why he likes it so much.

Difference is you aren’t forced to sit through crafting, or any of its shortcomings in elden ring. It’s a game about fighting hard bosses and clearing dungeons. It feeds you that on a silver platter. The anything that might be seen as not fun are always optional to the core mechanics of the game

@@Ragnell123 yeah i get it, its just that difference in player freedom between GOW and ER is like night and day lol. They feel like completely different genres even if they are both 3rdP action games

Well, this is coming from a man with 600+ recorded episodes of SAP

The people who play it are there for that. They armt seeing anything different that you.

@@williammitchell6254 but why am I seeing unironic anger for it not being a goty nominee. Its literally the most mindless game I've seen

@@SaumitraBose they don't care that its mindless, the appreciate the gameplay loop.

What's not to get? It's chewing gum in video game form, it gives you dopamine and it's cheap. So: hype. It doesnt necessarily have that much staying power but I played a lot. But if you only played a few runs, theres more substance to it than you think.

@@AtomicSlugg I gotta say, if that’s not a bit.. you totally dug your own grave on that one 🤣

I love the game too, and can admit he made some good points,🤣😂

@@tygarner9142 yea the pointless puzzles and immersion breaking traversal are factsss

@@AtomicSlugg its fair to say you aren't a fan, but to says games shouldn't strive for that experience is quite pretentious. imo once perfected, video games will be a better medium for a narrative than movies. Movies have been falling off for a while, tv shows/streaming have been in the spotlight critically for at least the last 15 years, and thats been slowing down as of late too. i think the perfect game lies in the best of both worlds. if you find distaste in a well executed game solely for the fact that is has a compelling story, that wouldn't make sense. But i'll admid, that doesn't reallllly exist yet.

@@AtomicSlugg Mate what are you talking about

tiny rogues

@@TheLibraryofLetourneau thanks 😊

Something being animated simply doesn’t mean it’s bad. You can have the most complex graphics as possible, but if the game don’t look good, it don’t matter

why 30 seconds to mars

I mean, do you have to beat Elden Ring to realize that it should be nominated for Game of the Year?

@@1wayroad935 I’m strawmanning here, but what if the ending really sucked and when you finally beat the game you were like “shit I wish I voted for something else” A lot people consider the second half of Elden Ring to be way grindier and less fun than the first half, so I feel like you should get at least 3/4 through a game before considering it for GOTY

@@n8mo That's fair. I also have to admit that all these arguments are pointless since GOTY hasn't meant what it is supposed to for over a decade now.

@@1wayroad935 100%

@@1wayroad935 Ummm yes?

I literally only watch TGA for new game reveals.

There aren't enough things to kill

No... it doesn't?

@@bringmethanos420 There's like two relevant currencies in the game and the rest can be summarized as "upgrade rocks that go up in value as you progress". It's really not difficult at all. And the game even makes knowing about all that irrelevant because it'll just say if a thing can be upgraded or not next to it anyway. Couldn't be any more streamlined.